Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Supporting the Constitution

About 200 people, many of them children, who support the US Constitution came to the Arizona State Capitol earlier today to show their opposition to some Arizona lawmakers’ efforts to strip out the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

The State Senate held hearings this afternoon to discuss the proposed law. In a rare bit of Republican disharmony, the Republican sponsor of bill withheld it from a vote because he couldn’t get enough GOP votes to pass it out of committee. That doesn’t mean the bill is dead - he could shop it around to a more receptive committee - but it does put the bill on legislative life support.